Redondo High School basketball players test positive for COVID-19 after club tourney in Orange County [Update]
Redondo Union High School’s boys basketball season ended before it began because of a COVID-19 outbreak over spring break. Easy Reader file photo by Kevin Cody Over the last weekend in March, Redondo Union High Schoolboys basketball coach Nick Welch took the South Bay Supreme Basketball club team, which he coaches in the off season, to The Easter Classic 2021. Over 100 club teams participated in the annual tournament at The Map Athletic Facility, a 64,000 square-foot indoor gym in Garden Grove, in Orange County. At the time indoor sporting events were prohibited in Los Angeles County. South Bay Supreme included 20 of the 45 players on the Redondo Union High boys freshman, junior varsity and varsity basketball teams. Over the following two weeks, 22 Redondo basketball players, plus one of their coaches, tested positive for COVID-19. Coach Welch said in a statement Sunday, in response to this story, that it is unfair to intimate that the tournament was the source of the contagion. There is no medical evidence to indicate that it was, and there is no evidence that any of the more than 100 other teams at the tournament contracted COVID-19 at the tournament. All of the cases were mild…
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